Journey to the Mer de Glace and Chamonix Fever Tale
A narrator recounts travel from Fate town in Chamonix to Mer de Glace with an awkward mule ride guided by Guichard. Illness strikes with fever and ague, delaying ascent and forcing a stay in a mountain inn. The group witnesses an avalanche aftermath, endures a night of confusion over meals, and reflects on the rugged paths and the glacier’s height.
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Mer de Glace
Chamonix
Mont Blanc
Perow
Wunable
Guichard
Wunde
Nmas
Kaise
Barnum's Menagerie Fire Destroys New York Buildings
Fire at Harnum's Museum and Menagerie on Fourteenth Street near the Academy of Music destroys Barnum's building and Grace Chapel. The blaze started about 4 AM, consuming the iron and wood structure and damaging surrounding properties. two elephants and a camel were saved. Estimated losses range from 500000 to 1000000 dollars.
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New York
Harnum’s Museum and Menagerie
Fourteenth Street
Academy of Music
Barnum
Grace Chapel
Lawrence Mansion
Thirteenth Street
Miner & Stevens
Wies
Academy
Circuit
Grace
Wehl The Pixtifat Weighs Lecturing Dream Inportland Dispatch
Wehl the pixtifat considers a shift from musician to lecturer. Though unlikely he abandons his forte, his past success makes a second career doubtful yet intriguing. The dispatch from Portland Maine to Chicago on Christmas day notes his plans and personal recollections of Liszt Thalberg and others.
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Wehl
Liszt
Thalberg
Portland
Chicago
How to go West pamphlet guides western travel
An inquiry urged for careful route choice before starting west. The Burlington Route is praised as a leading passenger line to the west with direct Southern Iowa to Nebraska and Kansas service and connections to California. A free pamphlet titled How to go West, with a large map, is available from the General Passenger Agent Burlington and Missouri River, Burlington, Iowa.
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Burlington
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
California
Territories
Freeport
Great West
Mail Register Malls Arrive and Schedule Changes at Freeport
Malls arrive at Freeport Post Office routes list varied arrival times for Chicago eastern and northern via O M W lines. The schedule includes Dubuque and western routes with departures on Monday Wednesday and Friday and arrivals on Monday Tuesday and Thursday to several Wisconsin and Iowa points. Elizabeth via Wattermans Mills Yellow Creek and others noted arrivals and departures on alternating days.
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W.U
Monroe
Wis
Cedarville
Orangeville
Oneco
Shuey’s Mills
Moneye
Pecoesan
Elizabeth
Watterman’s Mills
Yellow Creek
Loran
Kent
Plum River
Yankes Hollow
Stockton
Ward’s Grove
Derinda
Buena Vista
Cedarville Damascus
McConnell’s Grove
Ice Gorge Wrecks Six Steamers and Ten Barges
An ice gorge at Menpuis Tennessee broke at 2 AM sweeping away dry docks and ten coal laden barges owned by Brown and Jones. Several steamers were lost including Laura Belle Pike R P Walt Undine Westwind and City of Augusta. The towboat Nellie Thomas is critically damaged and may not be saved as heavy ice continues to run. Westwind and Walt were loaded with cotton.
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Menpuis
Tenn
Brown & Jones
Laura
Belle Pike
R. P. Walt
Undine
Westwind
Augusta
Nellie Thomas
Walt
Sinking of the Peruviana Reports 265 Lives Lost
Boston December 28 the Peruviana tragedy lists 265 lives lost. The ship carried a nearly million dollar cargo from the East Indies and was insured for 400000 dollars.
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Boston
East Indies
Niagara Suspension Bridge safety check praises enduring cables
Twenty years after the Niagara Suspension Bridge construction the Great Western railway officials report a thorough inspection of the cable anchorage. Caps on towers were removed and cables proved perfect. a twelve foot masonry removal revealed cement preserved wires and anchor chains bright and intact under water lime cement.
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Niagara River
Great Western Railway
Sermon Critiques Vice of the Age in St Louis
Rev. Dr. Folland denounces the middle class pursuit of appearances in a St Louis sermon. He mocks dove colored trousers, shipy boots, diamond studs, opera outings, hired carriages, billiards, cocktails, and costly theater, urging work toward a higher, honest life. He frames labor as the path to lasting virtue.
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St. Louis
Dr.folland
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Bornain
J Pimale
Grasa Chapel
Mail Register
Freeport Post-Oulee
Silver Creek
Smith D.atkins
Stowe
Queen Clty Pub
Cincinnati
Ohio
Dobbin
Forth Home Circle
Goons Peery & Co
Park Row
Awe
Valley Publishing Co
the Weekly Sun
Beat Family
Beat
the Weekly
NEW York Sun
the Sun
New York City
Telegraphe
Circulara
N. W. Telegraph Institute
Janesville, Wik
NEW York Observer
The
Great American Family Newspaper
Sidney E. Morse & Co
SNC
Agenta
G. Slinson & CO
Maine
Aurora Commercial College
Jennings’ Seminary
W. Queread
Aurora
Cos T
Carpenter’s
Cooper’s
Illinois
Town
Range
Carroll County
Knowlton
Stephenson St
Martin
Wagam
Cyrus Brown
Milton
Niagara
Degas
Nelson D. Beebe
Nelson .D.beebe
Pala
Henry M. Barnum
Aster
Linois
Stephenson County
Mary S. Scott
Frederick Baker
Clarinda Baker
Mary
Scott
Anid
Ssid Court
I. C
Ssid
Stephenson
Illinoia
Western Union Railroad Company
T.C
Henry O. Hyp Compht
Bolleitor
Quheriff
Gionit
State of Illinois
Jacob W. Runner
A. Pelton
Lorenzo H. Lee
Knowton
Uinols
John HK
Hayes
Stephenson Co
America
Specimens
Banner
Hinsdale, N. H
Holland & Go’s
Billiard
Holland
Stephenson Street
Diviola
Mercantile Insurance Co
London
Edinburgh
U. S
Williams Street, N. Y
Capicrd
Eenass
United States
Ita
John R. Lemon
Agnt
Freeport Journal
Alma M
Book & Job Printing Office
Andaa
Journal
Lils
Bill
Butlale
Freeport, Ti
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